The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-24
At the convention Of railroad coal miners

ton which Will have power TO settle all
disputes between the operators and their
employees.
Both houses of the Maine Legislature ad-
journed sine die on the 18th.
In the case Of Howard Medlar, on trial at
Pottsville, Pa, for the murder Of Daniel
Miller, the jury on the 18th returned YER
dict of voluntary manslaughter.
William ]. Hutchinson, an eX-broker, was
arrested at New York on the 18th, charged
with having converted to his own use over
| $35, 900 worth of stocks belonging to Will
| lam II. Sistare.
Frank A. Scott, the defaulting cashier of
the publishing firm Of Webster & Co., of
New York. has confessed to Webster at the
county jail that he appropriated to his own
| use $25, 600 of the firms money. The pris-
| oner expressed determination to make
restitution.
Thirty graduates of the Woman's Medical
College Of Pennsylvania received diplomas
at the thirty-first annual commencement of
| that institution on the 18th.
| The AntiDiscrimination bill was passed
| in the Pennsylvania Senate on the 18th by
vote Of yeas 80, nays 4.
| The twenty-four coal miners imprisoned
| in the Pittsburgh workhouse for conspiracy
| were released by the Pardon Board on the
17th The men were sentenced to eight
months imprisonment and had served three
months. They were convicted on charge
of conspiracy to keep non-union men from
working during the great miners strike OF
| 1884.
By apexplosion of gas in the Conigham
mine of the Delaware & Hudson Coal Com
pany at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 18th, four
men were badly burned-two, Stephen Sny-
| der and William Bloom, probably fatally.
Business failures throughout the country
during the week ended March IS number
| for the United States 1S7, for Canada 33, or
| total of go, against 2S2 the previous week,
and 225 in the corresponding week Of last
year.
George g. sickles, the father of General
Daniel E. Sickles, died at his residence at
| New Rochelle, N. Y, on the 18th, aged
| eighty seven years.
The bodies of two unknown tramps were
discovered in the hot air flue at the Isabella
furnace in Pittsburgh on the morning of the
18th by the watchman. The men had evil
IDENTIFY crawled into the flue or tunnel to
escape from the cold and had been suffo-
Gated by the coke gas while sleeping.
A jury in the case of Cleary, the Doodle
ex-Alderman, was secured at New York on
the 18th after fifteen days effort, and the
| trial began.
A New York dispatch says it was posi-
| lively stated in Wall street on the 18th that
! deposit Of S500,O00 had been made which
| secured to the Cincinna ii, Hamilton & Day
ton, or Ives-Staynor-Meyer party, the con-
troll of the Baltimore & Ohio property.
Peter English, the burglar, who tried to
murder Officer Higginbotham of the New
| York police, several weeks ago, was ar
/ rested in that city on the 18th.
The first grand Scandinavian sangerfest
in America will take place in Philadelphia
the latter part Of July, lasting three days.
WEST AND SOUTH.
| Colonel James Collins, a wealthy cotton
| planter of Dodge County, Ca, was shot
through the window Of his residence on the
night Of the 18th and instantly killed. The
| assassin was unknown.
At San Francisco on the 10th the jury in
the case of John E. Steites, charged with
placing dynamite bomb on the track of
] the Sutter street cable line, rendered ver-
| djfS of guilty after being out eight minutes.
1t\ said that real estate sales at Findlay,
~ o., osthe 10th aggregated s500,000. Outly-
al iRfg {rms between Findlay and Stewart
villere being bought up by Cincinnati and
Chicago capitalists.
The Presidents pardon OF J. j. G. Dough-
erty, imprisoned at Baltimore, Md, for en-
bezzling money order funds, came too late.
i Dougherty had been dead several days
A terrible accident occurred on the Mari
Parkersburg, W. Va, on the 10th. While
an engine bearing the engineer, H. s. Vim
cent, Fireman Albert Bushby, Brakeman
Stewart, Conductor Jack Mccoy and pas
| senger named Early, were crossing trestle
ninety feet high, the locomotive suddenly
left the track and plunged down to the
abyss below, carrying all on board with it.
Vincent and Bushby were instantly killed
and the others were all probably fatally in
jured.
William Paxton of Lancaster County, g.
c., veteran of the Mexican war, despair
ing of receiving a pension, committed sui
eide few days ago by hanging himself to
tree near his house.
| Pension Agent F. A. Borear and Henry
j. Dane, postmaster at Leserer, Mimi, have
been arrested, charged with interfering
with the mail in taking letter containing
draft for 1868 pension money and with
holding part of it from j. b. Randall, PEN
} sioner.
I, The Knights of Labor of Cincinnati have
indorsed the platform adopted by the Union
Labor party, and a convention will be held
to nominate city ticket.
J Two German employees of the Wabash
, Qnd.) School Furniture Company, have re-
ceived notice from the German War De-
! partment to report at once for military duty
on penalty of having their property confis-
[ Gated. Both decline to return, however,
: firmly believing that conflict between
: Germany and France is at hand.
, The funeral of Captain James B. Eads
, took place from Christ Church, St. Louis
on the 10Th and was attended by large
number of the most prominent citizens
5 many of whom have been associated with
5 him in his great engineering works.
l The chairman of the proposed congress o.
l churches and Christians, to be held IN Chi
8 cago on March 80, 'to consider the nature
: and principles of the secret lodge system
! and it's influence on the Christian religion
and civil liberty states that $50 delegate:
. have already announced their intention Il
o be present.
a At Charleston, s. c., on the 18th William
\ Baxley, a colored boy, aged sixteen year
was stabbed to the heart and killed by thre'
: small colored boys. The murderers escaped
D Rev. William B. Gordon, rector of st
i Peters Episcopal Church, of Smyrna, Del.
= has been appointed Bishop Of Mexico, ant
e will take possession of the new See soon.
Il A cyclone swept through the town o
Tampa, Fla, on the 18th, destroying severa
it houses. Two children were killed, on
!, woman was fatally injured, and severa
e persons were seriously hurt. Loss SIC, 900
If Advices from the stock-growing center
l. of the Southwest are to the effect that
s. decided revival in the cattle business ha
g. commenced. Stockmen estimate that fror
,r sc, 600 to 100000 head of stock are ready fo
& the drives in different parts of the South
IN west
d, In investigating the cause of the sudde
n death of an old woman named Minnie Nj
le Manus, at Cincinnati on the 10th, who die
in in apparently the most abject poverty, tn
re coroner found $50 in gold sewed up in he
clothing and nearly $500 in the room, t.
la gether with evidence that she had sewers
le thousand dollars in deposit with the Jesu
to brothers.
CO The new fast mail service from New Yor
er to the West is complete success. TT